Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1887-09-08
THE FARM.

HE FARM
Batter. in amounts of FIVE pounds or
80 ia regularly sent through the English
~s,i.. Now it is proposed 10 send cream
-,on, the country to supply the London
,.s5e in tin-cylinders, tightly corked,
,;,,d down and sealed; the tins not to be
,sturned BY this method ii is proposed
n finnish cream at 6215c per quart,
which is about one half less than is charg-
.3by London milkmen.
The Montana Wool Grower says: The
,mbiug season now over has been an ex
!, GOOD one. The percentage of increase
has beer quite large, although of course
ma number OF ewes TO lamb was much
,educed by the great mortality of last
vinter. The percentage of dry owes was
smaller than usual, and had the winter
bssu mild one, and had the ewes as q
bsdy come through alive, the increase
would have been something remarkable.
Judging from what we have heard from
various sections, we should put the net
increase in sheep for this summer above
the number on the range last fail, at a
| Hue less than ten per cent.
An Illinois dairyman, being dissatis-
| fed with the average yield per cow in his
| dairy. began testing each separately for
| the amount of milk given, thus wedding
out The cows which not only were not
paying for their keep but were costing
more than their produce came to. This
caused decided improvement but the
result was not entirely satisfactory. The
cows we're then tested by setting the milk
| skimming and churning separately from
| each. By this method the actual value of
| each COW was determined, the poor ones
sold and replaced by heifers from the
best dairy breeds. The result was that
he butter yield was raised from 166 to
| .6 pounds per year per head.
Az Australian gives in the st. Louis
Glsbs-Democrat some news relating to
the cattle business in the southern land.
He says: Our cattle raising in the great
grass region is very extensive, yet it diff
ters somewhat from the way it is carried
on IN the United States. We fence our
Fauges or stations as they are called with
American barbed wire. Australians are
always on the lookout for new things in
America, and they speedily adopt them.
The proprietor OF a station is called
'qua.ter He may have 10000 or 10000
acres IN his station, but whatever he has
1t is all fenced. Some of these ranches
are zoo miles from market, and It takes
many months to drive the cattle through.
The law prohibits cattle from being driv-
en- faster than four miles q day, or sheep
more than three. The recent great rains
nave wonderfully increased the crops.
WOOL has gone up Sc per cent"
Next to a good lot of logs the average
northwestern lumbermaD apparently ad-
mlfes most something in the line of fancy
STOCK h. f. Brown, of Minneapolis, has
made his Browndale herd and his annual
,.oeS sales famous. n. p. Clarke and
mas A. Gilman, both lumbermen in st.
loud dabble in Short-horns and Jerseys.
Nhue Isaac Staples, over at Saltwater,
eis his admiration for fine stock express
nselt largely in thoroughbred horses.
as string OF runners is generally fea-
,-'e az every meeting. Several of the
Ia4 care lumbermen have farms ada
.Sl. with hne stock, while Thos. Irvine,
lug secretary of the Mississippi Logging
y'~ any takes greal deal of pride and
folIOTt IN a small herd of Jerseys. The
AlSpp' stout d Co. company have a whole
..',sa OF farms in the Red Cedar country,
- -.-I 'aslf farming operations are second
w! N Importance to their numbering
SUI Us carried on in the same thoroughly
''a'ena'ic and comprehensive manner.
Inc eve-ity of the drouth in many
. ,.I.'9ls OF the country this year has
- attention to the value OF our hay
up which by the way is very generally
.-I--5'sstlmated. For the past four wears
~, "'sfase value of the hay crop of the
a. ne states was $50 million dollars.
49,. az,c',eage ard yield during the same
80. ..o1 mas varied remarkably little, the
-,r. us annual product having been AZ
-'t-. tons with the lowest yield As
N --'Vl AID the highest, 49, million.
ny. acreage has kept closely in the
+. ls.uorSood Of 80 million acres. This
vssa. ...t.e IN excess of the average Ia
re- 49, ana yet the average value Of The
.sa crop was only 331 million dollars.
,sss. ,alls OF the hay crop per acre ex-
-. ,aat Of the wheat crop about 20
III ssl''' and the same by comparison
.gt,l 20 arrive at the value of the
So as crop of the United States il
u y os necessary to include the value
dom :. pasture land, and if this were
s. r-- .Is grass crop would be found to
s.,.1. go more valuable than anv other
e'up IN the country.